Network Stewards are member of the Network Steward Circle – a network body that links GEN International, GEN Africa, GEN Europe, GEN North America, GEN Oceania and Asia, CASA Latina, NextGEN, and GEN Council of Elders together. It is made up of 3 members from each of those Nodes/Circles. Its core purpose is Network coordination and to steward GEN’s shared purpose as a network. Below, you find all current members of the NSC.
Amena is a creative visionary, spiritualist, healer and permaculturist dedicated to designing compassionate, caring, heart centered relationships, stewarding ecovillage regenerative movement through sharing and weaving regenerative best practices and projects. Amena divides her time between India, Canada and Philippines.
Taking care of the earth and being nature is her highest purpose. Flowers are an inspiration for her regenerative design philosophy - beautiful, always radiant, fragrant, se… View profile
Steffen Emrich is a trained city- and regional planer. Since 1999 he is working as project manager for several international Peace Building organizations all around the world. Since 2013 he is part of the GEN-international Project development and Fundraising group. In 2014, he has co-developed the project "Urban Resilience and community" and is still very interested in bringing together intentional communities and traditional villages. Steffen is a founding member of GEN-Germany and is currently… View profile
Daniel is an educator, social entrepreneur, and communitarian whose mission in life is to support the development of sustainable communities and local solutions to global warming. After living at the Findhorn Foundation in northern Scotland and completing his Ph.D. in community-based education the early 90s, Daniel founded Living Routes, which partnered with the University of Massachusetts Amherst to run study abroad programs based in ecovillages around the world. He also helped found Gaia Educa… View profile
Since 2009, Ethan Hirsch-Tauber has lived in communities around the world, working as a sustainability educator and engaging in the ecovillage movement. He taught for four years as a faculty for Living Routes sustainability study program in Auroville, India. During that time he started working with GEN, in particular supporting the birth of GEN Africa as its own entity and the remergence of NextGEN. He then spent four years living in Tamera, Portugal and was voted onto the GEN Europe Council whe… View profile
Jake was born into the Findhorn Community, Scotland and has stayed active in the Ecovillage world since. Between 2013 - 20 this was primarily through co-founding the global part of the youth arm of the Global Ecovillage Network, NextGEN and then holding leadership positions within it and the European level.
He also uses his experience from visiting close to 50 communities worldwide and of Ecovillage Education to empower organisations and individuals towards a regenerative culture through bala… View profile
I am a life gardener that love to sing and perform. I live in Aldeafeliz in Colombia and share my talents working as a self transition, sociocracy, and leadership teacher. I am part or the circle of Alliances for the Mother Earth´s rights, and that is my mission. I believe in love. View profile
A life-long learner and Gaia steward - I grow as I go View profile
Laura works as an eco-social designer, permaculture practitioner, facilitator, trainer and project collaborator bringing more than six years of experience in the eco-social field. This path started when she was a teenager living in a community in Germany and lead her to engage in ecovillage development, education, community building and youth empowerment as part of the European and International NextGEN team since 2014 and more recently the GEN Board.
Laura is presently undertaking an action re… View profile
President of Esspoir Pour Tous ( Hope for all)a congolese NGO working on helping street children, orphans and pygmies,Luc is also one of founders of GEN DRCongo Network(Democratic Republic). Together with Lua Bashala and Lucky Kekana.Actually he is GEN Ambassador for DRC and Central Africa. Since 2012 He initiated the DRC EDE annual education session. View profile
Taisa works as a trainer, consultant and researcher on various topics related to sustainability, social innovations and community life. Master´s on Psychosociology of Communities and Social Ecology at EICOS Program/UFRJ - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Ecovillage Researcher. ICSA - International Communal Studies Association board member. CASA Brazil council member. Instructor and Coordinator of EDEs - Ecovillage Design Education Programm View profile
Betsy Morris is a community organizer and Cohousing Coach co-organizing Cohousing California, part of Planning for Sustainable Communities. With her husband Raines, at Berkeley Cohousing, she helps people find and form and live well in relationship to one another. She has served on the Fellowship for Intentional Community (FIC) board, visited and advised many communities, and lived in two. She holds a Masters and Doctorate in City and Regional Planning. View profile
Niveen Adel Morsy holds a B.SC. in Architecture from Cairo University, Egypt. She holds a postgraduate diploma in Architectural Design, Geographic Information Systems and Techno MBA. She is currently managing several Islamic heritage projects in CULTNAT- the Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage; one of the academic centers of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. She has participated in several heritage IT documentation and dissemination projects in Egypt and in the Arab world.
Ni… View profile
Macaco Tamerice has been living in the ecovillage of Damanhur, Italy since 1993. For several years she has been working in international relations for Damanhur and is its Coordinator of International Community Relations. In 2008, she became Vice President of GEN-Europe, and in 2010 was elected President, staying in office until 2015. She is now serving on the Advisory Board of GEN- International, and is President of the non-profit Association Damanhur Education that organizes trainings for susta… View profile
Fran is communications manager at GEN Europe. View profile
Whole systems design consultant, regenerative practitioner and permaculture teacher, A. Keala Young is a GEN Ambassador and a Regional Representative of GENNA - GEN North America. He is also a Co-Steward and Strategic Coordinator for the Regen Alliance. View profile
Margarita Zethelius is a biologist from Colombia with an MSc in Conservation and Rural Development. Her experience includes design, management and implementation of sustainable development projects and community strategies for communication and education for conservation. A skilled networker, she is part of Berkley University's Environmental Leadership Program and WWF's Education for Nature Program. Margarita sits on the board of CASA (Council of Sustainable Settlements of Latin America), there … View profile
